Acknowledgements xi The Family Album Buried in the Closet 1 Rediscovering a Genealogy from Buddhist American Converts to Second-Generation Buddhist Americans When Two Means One 69 Retracing Scholarly Traditions on Buddhism in the United States The Mountain of Youth 123 Converting American Buddhism and the Authority of the Monk-Convert Paradigm From Master's Tools to Child's Toys 209 Remaking the Political as Personal Child's Mind, Parent's Mind 289 ix Nightlight Buddhists, Alternative Linages of Authority, and (Dis)Placing the Buddhist American Canon Conclusion 343 Buddhism in the Made and the Creative Possibilities of Tradition Bibliography 369 Index 391
